Practices for Recovering Resilience
Resonance – Separateness and Oneness
This e-newsletter explores resonance – how we pick up on other people’s energy, positive or negative. How we can skillfully differentiate our energy and emotions from another’s and still remain […]
Healthy Aging
Bill Moyers interviewed Harvard sociologist Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot on his PBS Journal recently about her latest book: The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk, and Adventure in the 25 Years After 50. I’m […]
Reflections on Laughter
The August 2009 issue of Ode magazine is devoted to Laughter: how laughter evolved and how it makes us human; the positive impacts of laughter on health and productivity; how […]
Recovering Competencies that Went Missing or Never Were
When there’s a lack of emotional warmth and physical touch in our earliest experiences, our growing brains don’t develop the receptors for the oxytocin we need to “feel” loved […]
Wise Listening Leads to Conscious, Compassionate Connection
Your responses to last week’s e-quotes on Listening were the most overwhelmingly heartful of any offering so far. We all need to be listened to, deeply. “Deep listening is miraculous […]
Thinking Outside the Box
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. – Albert Einstein The impacts of global warming and a failing global economy require our leaders […]
Community Offers True Security
In these perilous times, when the rules are changing and the social safety nets are unraveling so quickly, when personal or family security seems several deep notches more uncertain; it’s […]
Skillful Ways to Deal with Stress and Trauma
When Sue arrived for her regular therapy session last week, she was agitated and upset. Her son’s bicycle had been stolen two days before; the washer-dryer had gone on the […]
The Neurobiology of Feeling Unlovable
I had the privilege of teaching “The Neurobiology of Feeling Unlovable”– and what relational psychology, Buddhism, and modern neuroscience teach us that we can do about that – to my […]
The Universality of Suffering
One of my beloved cats died on New Year’s Eve. I had lived with this sweet, playful purr-ball for ten years. Then two weeks of acute kidney failure, hospitalizations, complex […]